VIAGEM POR TRÊS PLATÔS: O QUE PODE A PSICOLOGIA NA ATENÇÃO BÁSICA?

Abstract

The Primary Care in Brazil has a long history, showcasing (dis)continuities, advances and setbacks. Psychology, as a professional field, was incorporated late into this level of care. Initially, we ask what the conditions are for Psychology to work in Primary Care and what could be its current potential and challenges. To answer these questions, we analyzed the insertion of Psychology based on an internship experience at an USF in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. This work is a qualitative research, in the format of an experience report, which used field diaries for recording and cartographic methodology for data analysis. Along this path, we mapped three plateaus, constituted from the contributions of Schizoanalysis, Institutional Analysis, Expanded Clinic and Collective Health. Based on the arrangements and devices experienced in this experience, we consider that Psychology in Primary Care is viable. However, we also observed that there are impasses. That’s because, in general, with the end of the NASF, Psychology began to occupy a type of institutional non-place in Primary Care. Even with the launch of the so-called eMulti teams, while this policy is not consolidated, we can still notice the persistent effects of neoliberal reforms, making it difficult to carry out a health care that is broader, collective and of an interprofessional and 5 intersectoral nature, to the detriment of strengthening agendas individual and biomedical focus. We wager that a comprehensive, integral and resolute Primary Care depends on the strengthening of multidisciplinary teams of support to ESF, in which Psychology would have its place guaranteed.